Archimbaud, Aurore, Nordhausen, Klaus and Ruiz-Gazen, Anne (2018) Unsupervized outlier detection with ICSOutlier. The R Journal, 10 (1). pp. 234-250.

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Abstract

Detecting outliers in a multivariate and unsupervised context is an important and ongoing problem notably for quality control. Many statistical methods are already implemented in R and are briefly surveyed in the present paper. But only a few lead to the accurate identification of potential outliers in the case of a small level of contamination. In this particular context, the Invariant Coordinate Selection (ICS) method shows remarkable properties for identifying outliers that lie on a low-dimensional subspace in its first invariant components. It is implemented in the ICSOutlier package. The main function of the package, ics.outlier, offers the possibility of labelling potential outliers in a completely automated way. Four examples, including two real examples in quality control, illustrate the use of the function. Comparing with several other approaches, it appears that ICS is generally as efficient as its competitors and shows an advantage in the context of a small proportion of
outliers lying in a low-dimensional subspace. In quality control, the method may help in properly identifying some defective products while not detecting too many false positives.

Item Type: Article
Language: English
Date: 2018
Refereed: Yes
Subjects: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
Divisions: TSE-R (Toulouse)
Ecole doctorale: Toulouse School of Economics (Toulouse)
Site: UT1
Date Deposited: 19 Mar 2019 13:58
Last Modified: 02 Apr 2021 16:00
OAI Identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:122861
URI: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/32173
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